Roxana Baldetti appeared by videoconference, as she has in every hearing since being placed under house arrest. But this time the screen betrayed her.
While the Public Prosecutor’s Office presented arguments before Judge Delmar González to seize two houses, a car, a jet ski and 11 bank accounts totaling more than one million dollars, the former vice president pulled out a vape. She used it several times on camera and, when exhaling the smoke, raised a notebook to cover her face.
The September 22 hearing was suspended because her defense requested more time to present its arguments. They will face each other again on the 25th. Baldetti, sentenced to more than 15 years in prison in the ‘magic water’ case, continues the proceedings while on conditional release as the state attempts to recover what, according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, should never have belonged to her.